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Introduction to Biotechnology |
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The new Bio-Scope website has everything you can possibly want to know about crop biotechnology. Surfing to
http://www.bio-scope.org gives you access to a large amount of scientific information, including a content database, of use to people with various degrees of education in biotechnology. Bio-Scope also has a discussion forum on various levels of scientific understanding.
The site is also a meeting place for experts, a place where everybody can learn about important meetings on biotechnology. It also publishes unbiased and daily updated accounts on important publications, from newspapers to scientific publications. Last but not least, it is the place where a growing number of experts is willing to answer questions forwarded to them via Bio-Scope. It offers all this information in 3 languages : German, English and French
We would also like to draw your attention to a very handy portal website and agro-food biotech :
http://special.northernlight.com/gmfoods , with a large number of useful links and an 'Overview, Recent Editorials and Journal Articles, Biotech Industry positions, ethical and religious issues, health & safety, farming & food security and a lot more. The site is quite regularly updated.
http://www.techcentralstation.be Tech Central Station is a news web portal to help provide analysis, research and commentary to understand how technology is changing and shaping our world. There is also a special section on Biotech.
In case you do not really know very much about biotech (do not worry: you are not alone !), just try your luck with one of the following websites: |
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The site of the British Food and Drink Federation: a colourful, lively, excellent and balanced introduction to biotechnology and food. The web site received several awards and is made for the man/woman in the street.
www.foodfuture.org.uk
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A useful introduction to (plant) biotech is also to be found on the regularly updated site of Cropgen, a site funded by the crop biotech industry, but operating independently through a panel of expert scientists, to whom you are invited to submit any question you may have on (crop) biotechnology.
www.cropgen.org |
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Another introduction to biotech allowing you to learn a lot in a short time, the web site created by the US Council for Biotechnology Information
www.whybiotech.com |
For a more European look at things
www.eufic.org |
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www.rdg.ac.uk/EIBE |
The Scottish Roslin Institute (the cloned sheep Dolly!) web site, might be a good start as it gives plenty of readable information about cloning, nuclear transfer and the mapping of the genome.
www.ri.bbsrc.ac.uk |
Or try ‘Conceiving a clone’, which deals in a comprehensive way with misconceptions and implications, describes and analyses the arguments used in the cloning debate and even offers a questionnaire, which will help put your knowledge to the test.
www.library.thinkquest.org/24355
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Web site of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, is very helpful too if you want to know more about stem cells, cloning, bio-ethics and many other subjects. It offers an extensive dictionary and a large number of useful links.
www.phrma.org/genomics
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Talking about ethics: why not try ‘Bioethics for Beginners’, with an excellent introduction to the biotech-related ethical issues modern society will have to come to terms with ?
www.med.uenn.edu/bioethics
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Ireland - Irish government sponsored web site providing information on
biotechnology in Ireland
www.biotechinfo.ie |
Ireland - This website aims to connect members of the Biotech community in
Ireland by providing the online tools for interaction. Members can put their
own information onto the site including individual and organisation
profiles, news, events, CVs and job vacancies. Members can also take part in
discussion groups and register online for the face-to-face BioConnect
Ireland events.
www.biotechnologyireland.com
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Website in Italian explaining the benefits of GMOs by a group of students of
Biotechnology (Milan University). Their aim is to try to inform people on
GMOs.
utenti.lycos.it/info_ogm/
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Spanish Language Website on AgBiotech
www.porquebiotecnologia.com/
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